Foundation for the Community of Artists

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rdf:langString The Foundation for the Community of Artists was founded in 1971 as a support organization for working artists. By 1988 its membership had grown to nearly 6,000, including artists, art workers and representatives of art organizations. Although the majority lived in the New York metropolitan area, there were members located throughout the nation (there was at least one who lived in England). It remained active through the 1990s. FCA grew out of the National Art Workers Community (a splinter group of the Art Workers' Coalition). From its inception, the organization strove to overcome problems fundamental to the lives of artists. Its initial service was a four-issue-per-year publication, the Art Workers Newsletter, which functioned as an open forum for the exchange of ideas and the dissemination of news items important to the trade. Its name later became Art Workers News and, in the early 1980s, its scope was broadened and it became the bi-monthly publication, Art & Artists. Over the years, articles by leading artists, critics and educators, as well as information relating to health hazards, legal and financial affairs, housing employment and exhibition spaces, appeared in its pages.